Recognitions: Crossing Territories across Time, Space, and Textuality in the US and Beyond

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Recognitions

Crossing Territories across Time, Space, and Textuality in the US and Beyond

Edited by: Enrico Botta , Gianna Fusco , Pilar Martínez Benedí and Anna Scannavini

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 6 | Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media

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This volume offers a critical exploration of the many ways in which transcodification acts at the intersection of literature, art, history, and social and cultural artifacts to foster instances of recognition in the US.

Recognition covers a wealth of meanings: from the mere acknowledgement of existence, validity or legality, or appreciation of something as valuable, to the identification of something as known or familiar. Accordingly, this volume deals with different struggles for recognition. One focus of the volume is the assessment of artistic achievement in relation to a so-called original, with essays concerned with cultural codes and with the role that translation, adaptation, and cross-cultural encounters have played in US artistic and literary productions. A second, parallel, strand focuses on the fight for political and social inclusion, or on the dynamics beneath the recognition of group and gender identities, to explore how activism and artistic/literary productions challenge received identity boundaries and accepted social and cultural hierarchies.

Bringing together recognition and transcodification/transculturality, the book deconstructs crystalized and codified categories and celebrates the crossing of boundaries.

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Enrico Botta; Gianna Fusco; Pilar Martinez Benedi; Anna Scannavini.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Introduction: “One Shock of Recognition” Enrico Botta Open Access Download PDF	1
Fabulations of the Exception: Law, Justice, and Violence in Louise Erdrich’s The Round House Giorgio Mariani Open Access Download PDF	9
Representations of the Massie/Kahahawai Case: Recognizing Racial and Gendered Conflicts in Honolulu Fulvia Sarnelli Open Access Download PDF	27
What’s in “the heart of every Native citizen”? Definitions of Americanness in the John-Donkey Elena Ogliari and Ginevra Paparoni Open Access Download PDF	45
The Song of Hiawatha: From an Indian Tale to the Epos of Manifest Destiny Enrico Botta Open Access Download PDF	67
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Reimagining of (Captain) America Mattia Arioli Open Access Download PDF	81
Negotiating Paradigms in Transbellum American Culture: Walt Whitman, James Jackson Jarves, and the Old Masters Francesca Razzi Open Access Download PDF	101
Synesthesia, Photography, Intransitive Comparison: Worlding the World as Home in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt Serena Fusco Open Access Download PDF	117
Intercultural Encounters, Translations, and Understanding as Smooth? Michael Cooperson’s Impostures as a Translation Quandary Lisa Marchi Open Access Download PDF	135
Muslim Gatsby(s) in the Shadow of the Towers: Trans-codifications of The Great Gatsby in Twenty-first Century Pakistani-American Fiction Cinzia Schiavini Open Access Download PDF	151
“[S]howing Gatsby that there was more to life than just him”: Nghi Vo’s The Chosen and the Beautiful and the Ethnic Afterlife of Jordan Baker Nicolangelo Becce Open Access Download PDF	173
White Ethnics and U.S. Urban Neighborhoods in the 1970s: The Spatial Justice Mission of Geno Baroni Albert Latorella Lehner Open Access Download PDF	189
“Shut your mouth! Leave your worries outside, Mistress Elektra will take good care of you”: Interracial BDSM, Ultra Fetishes and the Hauntology of Black Transness Giuseppe Polise Open Access Download PDF	203
Conjure Feminism: The Root(work) of Black Women’s Intellectual Tradition Kameelah L. Martin Open Access Download PDF	223
Note on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	253
Index Open Access Download PDF	257

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6

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264

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4

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Recognition; transcodification; translation; adaptation

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Literary scholars and historians in the field of American studies; postgraduate students and PhD students in the same field

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